Author: kimraypoet

  • In the Dead of Winter

    These paths I walk all lead to snow White embankments filled with fluff Masking the truth underneath Holding us back three feet deep When will they release me Keeping me here like a prisoner Don’t they see I want out The ground is frozen I can’t move my fibers of life Shake, shake me out…

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  • Sunday Thoughts

    Two lone souls thinking they stand out in the crowd do they really or are they the same as everyone They feel special, profound as no one must feel the same but they do, they all want to be loved they all are searching for the one Yet there isn’t one there are quite a…

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  • Lost and Found Memories

    Sleeping soundly, his arms wrapped ’round me while I lay dreaming it’s you that rouses my sleep I wake startled you’ve returned again with flashes between two moments, a mere eyeblink away The things that can’t be those lost & found memories between moments of today

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  • Our (Mis)Fortune

    Your hand slips into mine, the fortune teller notices our smiles with glittering eyes, she’s convinced there’s a future ‘tween us, she smiles & invites us in Laying down cards one by one it reveals the betrayal and secrets that will keep us from the love that has swept us into a whirlwind We turn…

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  • Words at Night

    All the words to say The sad ones The lonely ones The grateful ones The mad ones They circulate through you But never leave your lips Raging out onto paper For all to read But the ones closest to you Will never see Those words escape effortlessly Words poured out late at night And splayed…

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  • Wait and See

    Standing Out by the water I see you’re alone Do I care to bother you Or should I leave you with your thoughts, Let you decide If this is what you want Will you come to me Or do I beg you to stay in this space I can see it written all over your…

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  • (Un)Covering Wounds

    The more you know the less you want to know some things get uncovered drawn out into the open ugly wounds that have been wrapped for years bruises that haven’t healed scars so deep they don’t know how to be normal again pleading and begging ’Oh, to be anything I’m not but please, don’t ignore…

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  • A Pause…

    It was all so close Was it just a dream for us to walk along the Thames Was it all in my head that we’d walk along the Seine To breathe in the spring flower beds To wrap ourselves in the warmth of our kisses The breeze would flow through my hair The sun would…

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  • The Disposables

    We met there in the bar most nights the same drink the same table conversing over troubles we leaned on each other in those long nights This night I sit and wait at the same table with the same drink you haven’t arrived yet and I linger for hours wondering Nights like this pass was…

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  • The Haunting

    Is it better to have a love lost,Not knowing about the other side?To have a deep hole in your heart,To keep what was lost in the past,And always wonder, ‘what if?’ Or to have it come back, Haunt you And realize it was true, Always has been And he’s thinking of you, too. With thousands…

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